The Gini coefficient measures the extent to which the distribution of income among individuals or households within an ...

Income inequality in India has decreased post-pandemic, but remains higher than 2015-16, as shown by a recent study.

What appears on the surface to be a flat trend in Western countries masks churn beneath – and growing middle class angst.

Over 74 years (1950–2023), the top 10% income share increased by 23.7 percentage points. Conversely, the middle 40% and ...

The report noted that the gap in monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) between rural and urban areas has reduced notably. The difference, expressed as a percentage of rural MPCE, has ...

The average monthly expenditure of households in Nagaland surged by over 17% between the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 periods, ...

The global economy remains slow, creating major challenges for reducing poverty and inequality. According to the IMF’s latest ...

Introduction According to the latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), based on the data collected from 2.61 lakh households in Rural areas and over 1 lakh in Urban areas, the average ...

Most people think economic inequality is a big problem for their country, and see the excessive political sway of the rich as ...

PM Modi noted that compared to 2011, consumption in rural India has nearly tripled, indicating that people are spending more ...

Spanning modalities like text, speech, and video, the study exposes significant challenges in data provenance, licensing, and ...

The HCES 2023-24 data showed that urban-rural gap in MPCE has declined to 70% in 2023-24 from 84% in 2011-12. In 2022-23, the ...